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Bonnie Severien

Born: 1978

Hometown: Heerhugowaard

Based in: Heerhugowaard

Bonnie Severien graduated with a BFA at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Netherlands. The former Queen Beatrix and the reigning King Willem-Alexander have selected her as a finalist five times for the prestigious Dutch Royal Award of Modern Painting. Works have been exhibited at the Royal Palace Amsterdam and the Art Museum in The Hague. She has done a number of commissions, including Imagery Estate Winery California USA and Fashion House Claudia Sträter in the Netherlands.

Severien has been awarded several Mondriaan Fund grants and participates in international exhibitions and Art Fairs such as Volta Basel Switzerland, AAF Hamburg Germany and Art Amsterdam Netherlands. Severien's work has been acquired by private collections, museums and corporate collections around the world.

 



More About Bonnie Severien

Question IconWhat inspires you?

My artworks depict a new paradise in which a dreamed symbiosis between modernist architecture and nature arises. I create a paradise in each painting, with modernist architecture and its utopian ideas and sublime, lush nature. Together, architecture and nature become a new oasis, they merge and are reflected in each other.

Question IconWhat are 3 words that best describe your work?

Dreamy, graphic, organic

Question IconWhat is the most important tool when creating your work?

Acrylic paint and tape to cut out shapes which are painted in.

Question IconWhat is the best piece of advice you have been given?

Stay true to yourself

Question IconWhere do you go for inspiration?

Into nature


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Credentials

Education

Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

Netherlands, 2007

Academy for Visual Education, Amsterdam

Netherlands, 1999

Awards

Royal Award for Modern Painting (NL)

2013

Royal Award for Modern Painting (NL)

2012

Royal Award for Modern Painting (NL)

2009

Royal Award for Modern Painting (NL)

2008

Victorie Fund Culture Prize

2008

Royal Award for Modern Painting (NL)

2007

Exhibitions

Volta Art Basel

Switzerland, 2024

Art[s] Gallery Simone Jansen

Netherlands, 2024

BIG ART Amsterdam

Netherlands, 2024

Gallery Lieve Lambrecht

Belgium, 2023

Imagery Estate Winery, California

United States of America, 2023

Rademakers Gallery Amsterdam

Netherlands, 2023

Art Fair Amsterdam

Netherlands, 2022

Rademakers Gallery

Netherlands, 2022

Affordable Art Fair

Germany, 2021

Affordable Art Fair

Netherlands, 2021

Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen

Netherlands, 2020

Press

Saatolog / Armband Uhren - ‘Rising Stars in the Art World’

2022

Jet Fuel Review (USA)

2021

Le Monde Diplomatique, Paris (FR)

2018

Le Monde Diplomatique in Bulgaria

2018

Le Monde Diplomatique en Español

2018